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Census Profile

La Bostonnais, Quebec (Municipalité)
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Population and dwelling counts
Population in 20111 503
Population in 20061 617
2006 to 2011 population change (%) -18.5
Total private dwellings2 362
Private dwellings occupied by usual residents3 218
Population density per square kilometre 1.8
Land area (square km) 287.37
Age characteristics
Total population by age groups4 505
0 to 4 years 10
5 to 9 years 20
10 to 14 years 30
15 to 19 years 30
15 years 10
16 years 5
17 years 5
18 years 5
19 years 5
20 to 24 years 15
25 to 29 years 20
30 to 34 years 20
35 to 39 years 25
40 to 44 years 30
45 to 49 years 50
50 to 54 years 55
55 to 59 years 60
60 to 64 years 50
65 to 69 years 35
70 to 74 years 25
75 to 79 years 10
80 to 84 years 10
85 years and over 0
Median age of the population5 49.6
% of the population aged 15 and over 86.6
Marital status
Total population 15 years and over by marital status6 440
Married or living with a common-law partner 310
Married (and not separated) 160
Living common law 145
Not married and not living with a common-law partner 130
Single (never legally married) 95
Separated 0
Divorced 25
Widowed 15
Family characteristics
Total number of census families in private households7 165
Size of census family: 2 persons 100
Size of census family: 3 persons 35
Size of census family: 4 persons 20
Size of census family: 5 or more persons 10
Total number of census families in private households8 165
Total couple families by family structure and number of children 150
Married couples 80
Without children at home 55
With children at home 25
1 child 10
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Common-law couples 75
Without children at home 40
With children at home 35
1 child 25
2 children 10
3 or more children 5
Total lone-parent families by sex of parent and number of children 15
Female parent 10
1 child 5
2 children 0
3 or more children 0
Male parent 5
1 child 5
2 children 0
3 or more children 0
Total children in census families in private households 110
Under six years of age 15
6 to 14 years 40
15 to 17 years 25
18 to 24 years 20
25 years and over 15
Average number of children at home per census family 0.7
Household and dwelling characteristics
Total number of persons in private households 500
Number of persons not in census families 75
Living with relatives9 20
Living with non-relatives only 5
Living alone 55
Number of census family persons 425
Average number of persons per census family 2.6
Total number of persons 65 years and over in private households 75
Number of persons not in census families aged 65 years and over 25
Living with relatives9 5
Living with non-relatives only 0
Living alone 15
Number of census family persons aged 65 years and over 55
Total number of private households by household type10 220
Census-family households 160
One-family-only households11 145
Couple-family households12 140
Without children 85
With children 55
Lone-parent-family households 10
Other family households13 15
One-family households with persons not in a census family 10
Couple-family households14 5
Without children 5
With children 5
Lone-parent-family households 5
Two-or-more-family households 5
Non-census-family households 60
One-person households 50
Two-or-more-person households 5
Total number of occupied private dwellings by structural type of dwelling15 215
Single-detached house 210
Apartment, building that has five or more storeys 0
Movable dwelling16 5
Other dwelling17 5
Semi-detached house 0
Row house 0
Apartment, duplex 5
Apartment, building that has fewer than five storeys 0
Other single-attached house 0
Total number of private households by household size18 220
1 person 55
2 persons 95
3 persons 40
4 persons 20
5 persons 5
6 or more persons 5
Number of persons in private households 505
Average number of persons in private households 2.3
Detailed mother tongue
Detailed mother tongue - Total population excluding institutional residents19 500
  Single responses  500
    English  10
    French  485
    Non-official languages  5
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 5
        Atikamekw    5
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 0
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  0
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  5
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  0
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          0
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Knowledge of official languages
Knowledge of official languages - Total population excluding institutional residents19 500
  English only 5
  French only 410
  English and French 90
  Neither English nor French 0
First official language spoken
First official language spoken - Total population excluding institutional residents19 500
  English 10
  French 495
  English and French 0
  Neither English nor French 0
Official language minority (number)23 10
Official language minority (percentage)23 2.0
Detailed language spoken most often at home
Detailed language spoken most often at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 505
  Single responses 500
    English 5
    French 495
    Non-official languages 0
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw   0
        Cree, n.o.s. 0
        Dene 0
        Innu/Montagnais 0
        Inuktitut 0
        Mi'kmaq 0
        Ojibway 0
        Oji-Cree 0
        Stoney 0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 0
        African languages, n.i.e. 0
        Afrikaans 0
        Akan (Twi) 0
        Albanian 0
        Amharic 0
        Arabic 0
        Armenian 0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e. 0
        Bengali 0
        Berber languages (Kabyle) 0
        Bisayan languages 0
        Bosnian 0
        Bulgarian 0
        Burmese 0
        Cantonese 0
        Chinese, n.o.s. 0
        Creoles 0
        Croatian 0
        Czech 0
        Danish 0
        Dutch 0
        Estonian 0
        Finnish 0
        Flemish 0
        Fukien 0
        German 0
        Greek 0
        Gujarati 0
        Hakka 0
        Hebrew 0
        Hindi 0
        Hungarian 0
        Ilocano 0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e. 0
        Italian 0
        Japanese 0
        Khmer (Cambodian) 0
        Korean 0
        Kurdish 0
        Lao 0
        Latvian 0
        Lingala 0
        Lithuanian 0
        Macedonian 0
        Malay 0
        Malayalam 0
        Maltese 0
        Mandarin 0
        Marathi 0
        Nepali 0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e. 0
        Norwegian 0
        Oromo 0
        Panjabi (Punjabi) 0
        Pashto 0
        Persian (Farsi) 0
        Polish 0
        Portuguese 0
        Romanian 0
        Rundi (Kirundi) 0
        Russian 0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda) 0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Serbian 0
        Serbo-Croatian 0
        Shanghainese 0
        Sign languages, n.i.e. 0
        Sindhi 0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese) 0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e. 0
        Slovak 0
        Slovenian 0
        Somali 0
        Spanish 0
        Swahili 0
        Swedish 0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino) 0
        Taiwanese 0
        Tamil 0
        Telugu 0
        Thai 0
        Tibetan languages 0
        Tigrigna 0
        Turkish 0
        Ukrainian 0
        Urdu 0
        Vietnamese 0
        Yiddish 0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses         5
    English and French 0
    English and non-official language 0
    French and non-official language 0
    English, French and non-official language 0
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home
Detailed other language spoken regularly at home - Total population excluding institutional residents19 505
  None 485
  Single responses  20
    English  15
    French  5
    Non-official languages  5
      Selected Aboriginal languages20 0
        Atikamekw    5
        Cree, n.o.s.  0
        Dene  0
        Innu/Montagnais  0
        Inuktitut  0
        Mi'kmaq  0
        Ojibway  0
        Oji-Cree  0
        Stoney  0
      Selected non-Aboriginal languages21 0
        African languages, n.i.e.  0
        Afrikaans  0
        Akan (Twi)  0
        Albanian  0
        Amharic  0
        Arabic  0
        Armenian  0
        Bantu languages, n.i.e.  0
        Bengali  0
        Berber languages (Kabyle)  0
        Bisayan languages  0
        Bosnian  0
        Bulgarian  0
        Burmese  0
        Cantonese  0
        Chinese, n.o.s.  0
        Creoles  0
        Croatian  0
        Czech  0
        Danish  0
        Dutch  0
        Estonian  0
        Finnish  0
        Flemish  0
        Fukien  0
        German  0
        Greek  0
        Gujarati  0
        Hakka  0
        Hebrew  0
        Hindi  0
        Hungarian  0
        Ilocano  0
        Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.  0
        Italian  0
        Japanese  0
        Khmer (Cambodian)  0
        Korean  0
        Kurdish  0
        Lao  0
        Latvian  0
        Lingala  0
        Lithuanian  0
        Macedonian  0
        Malay  0
        Malayalam  0
        Maltese  0
        Mandarin  0
        Marathi  0
        Nepali  0
        Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.  0
        Norwegian  0
        Oromo  0
        Panjabi (Punjabi)  0
        Pashto  0
        Persian (Farsi)  0
        Polish  0
        Portuguese  0
        Romanian  0
        Rundi (Kirundi)  0
        Russian  0
        Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)  0
        Semitic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Serbian  0
        Serbo-Croatian  0
        Shanghainese  0
        Sign languages, n.i.e.  0
        Sindhi  0
        Sinhala (Sinhalese)  0
        Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slavic languages, n.i.e.  0
        Slovak  0
        Slovenian  0
        Somali  0
        Spanish  0
        Swahili  0
        Swedish  0
        Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)  0
        Taiwanese  0
        Tamil  0
        Telugu  0
        Thai  0
        Tibetan languages  0
        Tigrigna  0
        Turkish  0
        Ukrainian  0
        Urdu  0
        Vietnamese  0
        Yiddish  0
      Other languages22 0
  Multiple responses          0
    English and French  0
    English and non-official language  0
    French and non-official language  0
    English, French and non-official language  0

Source: 2011 Census of Population.

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